Thumbs up, thumbs down, Saturday, Sept. 24

Saturday

Sep 24, 2011 at 12:01 AM

THUMBS UP to Pocono Township supervisors, volunteer firefighters and ambulance crew, and others who organize annual community days. Pocono's Community Day will run from noon to 5 p.m. today at the fire hall in Tannersville. It's basically a big block party for residents, with pony rides for the kiddies, fire truck rides, booths representing service agencies and lots of activities. These events give folks a good chance to meet their neighbors, learn more about where they live and what it has to offer.

THUMBS UP to Pocono Township supervisors, volunteer firefighters and ambulance crew, and others who organize annual community days. Pocono's Community Day will run from noon to 5 p.m. today at the fire hall in Tannersville. It's basically a big block party for residents, with pony rides for the kiddies, fire truck rides, booths representing service agencies and lots of activities. These events give folks a good chance to meet their neighbors, learn more about where they live and what it has to offer.

THUMBS DOWN to the 290-pound Nanuet, N.Y., man who is suing the White Castle burger chain for what he calls broken promises to make the eatery's booths bigger to accommodate heavier people. The guy should work out more or eat fewer burgers. This has frivolous lawsuit written all over it.

THUMBS UP to the many volunteers who are pouring sweat and tears into restoring the Dansbury Depot, the East Stroudsburg train station building that developer Troy Nauman relocated last year to make way for a commercial building on the track-side site. Thumbs up also to the Eastburg Community Alliance for supporting a plan to create a nonprofit museum and coffee house in the historic structure.

THUMBS DOWN to the folks at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection who don't seem to know what "emergency" means. Pocono Township supervisors only recently completed an emergency repair permit application on a big old hole that's closed one lane of the Frantz Hill Road Bridge in Swiftwater for the past six months. A spring storm's flash flooding created the hole. But going back and forth with the DEP to make sure they completed the permit application properly has taken all this time. Seems like somebody from the DEP could have traveled by mule to visit the site, repaired it pebble by pebble and returned home by now.

THUMBS UP to the General Federation of Women's Clubs' Pocono Mountain group for raising an impressive $3,960.46 this summer for local food pantries. The women solicited gift certificates from local restaurants and then raffled them off. Thanks to this service organization for helping to make sure local families who need food can get it.

The Pocono Record presents the thumbs up column on Saturdays to highlight the good and the bad in recent news. We welcome suggestions, reserving the right to choose those we feel best reflect worthy effort and those that still need work. Send ideas to: pheeschen@poconorecord.com.

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